Classics are dull. Please sir, I want more sex

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Bondage in Brontë isn’t enough. I’ve spiced up ten other works in a literary quiz – punish yourself if you get them right

As cheeky digital publishers rush to cash in on the (yawn) Fifty Shades of
Grey phenomenon by issuing versions of the classics with sadomasochistic
sex scenes interpolated all over the place — a process of reverse
Bowdlerisation every bit as perverse and dunderheaded as the 18th-century
original — I have listened to all sorts of literary snobs cry out at the
crimes that have been committed against such texts as (obviously) Jane
Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice and said
to myself, actually, no, this is a good thing.

Literature is boring. The classics are dull. Nobody reads them any more.